Dualism
\r\nDualism is not a supreme human philosophy; it is the supreme form of life. Poetry is in principle a matter of the heart, but the greatest poets — Homer, Firdausi , Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe — have combined in their poems reason and feelings, science and beauty. Poetry pertains to the individual, not to the society, even though Homer's poems helped form the Greek nation, and Whittier's angry poems helped abolish slavery in America. Mathematics pertains to the intellect, but "a good mathematician must be a poet too." All top-level physicists and astronomers were in a sense mystics as well: Copernicus, Newton, Keppler, Einstein, Oppenheimer. Punishment, although a repressive measure, can also work as a powerful moral factor. If it is just, it has an educational value both for the guilty and for other people. Fear is the start of morality, just as fear of God is the start of love for God. Sport, though merely a physical activity, evidently has a powerful educational value. Plato, one of the greatest minds of all times, got his name from his broad shoulders. The strong body nursed a most noble spirit. Body and soul, heart and brain, science and religion, physics and philosophy meet at points which mark the peaks of life. Naked intellect or pure inspiration are a sure sign of decadence. So, the secular principle can help the sacral one, cleanliness of the body can serve the purity of the soul, and salah can be the supreme form of human prayer.
\r\nCompiled From:
\r\n "Islam Between East and West" - Alija Ali Izetbegovic, p. 228